Example sentences of "date [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house , Carpendens Court , dated from the time of Charles I ; it had lately been used as a nursing home and was in sad disrepair . |
| 2 | It would seem that its priority would date from the time of such amendment . |
| 3 | Significantly enough one of the very earliest uses of the term ‘ postmodern ’ , dating from the time of the Second World War , was that of Arnold Toynbee in his A Study of History . |
| 4 | Six of the seven woodcuts of ‘ War ’ ( 1922–23 ) , her major graphic cycle from the years of the Weimar Republic , are shown , but her later work , dating from the time of her dismissal from the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1933 , is thinly covered . |
| 5 | Social democratic parties have existed in Europe for a century or more ; the Democratic and Republican parties in the US are well over a century old , and indeed have a certain continuity with earlier parties dating from the time of the American Revolution ; conservative parties on a mass basis were created soon after the emergence of social democracy in Europe ; and communist parties were formed on a world scale after the Russian Revolution . |
| 6 | The excavations on the south side of the High Street in 1961–2 also revealed the earliest version of Watling Street , probably dating to the time of the conquest , with associated timber-framed buildings ; the road was originally 2.7 m ( 9 ft ) wide , although it was soon widened to 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) , and a central stone-built drain effectively divided it into two carriageways . |
| 7 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 8 | The Tory paternalists of the 1950s seemed dated by the time of the Heath government in 1970–4 . |
| 9 | Fifteen li north of Tongjiang , at the edge of the T'ang 's great estate , were the ruins of an ancient Buddhist monastery that dated from the time of the great Sung dynasty . |
| 10 | Some of my happiest memories date from the time when Father was alive . |
| 11 | Although history dates it to the Golden Age of Magna Graecia , some of the region 's most glorious monuments date from the time of Byzantium and Norman rule . |
| 12 | The earliest known frescoes date to the time of the second temples , i.e. from 1700 BC onwards . |
| 13 | The greater prominence of physiology in geographical botany dates from the time when physiologists , who formerly worked in European laboratories only , began to study the vegetation of foreign countries in its native land . |
| 14 | Mass production dates from the time of Henry Ford , who was the first man to adopt the principle of the production line , when he used this approach to produce a restricted range of motor cars put together in a flow-line process . |
| 15 | The Hellenistic age dates from the time of the victories of Alexander the Great ( PLATE 39 ) . |
| 16 | It dates from the time of the Civil War when many registers were not properly kept ; thus , under the year 1647 the vicar of Hooton Pagnell ( Yorks. ) wrote in his register : |